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Cushitic
Geographic
distribution
Egypt, Sudan, Horn of Africa, East Africa
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
  • Cushitic
Proto-languageProto-Cushitic
Subdivisions
  • Beja (North)
  • Agaw languages (Central)
  • Dullay
  • Highland East Cushitic (Sidamic)
  • Lowland East Cushitic
  • South Cushitic
ISO 639-2 / 5cus
Glottologcush1243
Distribution of the Cushitic languages in Africa
Cushitic languages
Map of the Cushitic languages

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, and Sidama.[1]

  1. ^ Mous (2012), pp. 343–345.

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Cushitic languages

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South Cushitic languages

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Omotic languages

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Afroasiatic languages

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Beja language

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of Cushitic (e.g. idiosyncratic features in Agaw or Central Cushitic). The characteristics of Beja that differ from those of other Cushitic languages are...

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Lowland East Cushitic languages

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Lowland East Cushitic is a group of roughly two dozen diverse languages of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Its largest representatives...

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Highland East Cushitic languages

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Highland East Cushitic languages show parallels in their phonology to the historical development of the southern Ethio-Semitic languages, in particular...

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Agaw languages

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The Agaw or Central Cushitic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages spoken by several groups in Ethiopia and, in one case, Eritrea. They form the main substratum...

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Languages of Ethiopia

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in the country speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches. The former includes the Oromo language, spoken by the Oromo, and Somali...

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Languages of Somalia

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its nearest relatives are the Afar and Saho languages. Somali is the best documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies of it dating from before...

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Afar language

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also known as ’Afar Af, Afaraf, Qafar af) is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken by the Afar people inhabiting Djibouti...

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Somali language

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best-documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies of the language dating back to the late 19th century. The Somali language is spoken in Somali...

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Somali languages

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Afroasiatic Semitic languages, Ancient Egyptian, etc. Cushitic Beja, Agaw languages, etc. East Cushitic Highland East Cushitic Lowland East Cushitic Oromo, Afar...

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Agaw people

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languages, also known as the Central Cushitic languages, which belong to the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family, and are therefore closely...

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Languages of Eritrea

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Arabic and English as official languages, alongside ethnic Eritrean languages like Tigre, Afar and other Cushitic languages, as well as the Nilo-Saharan...

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Taita Cushitic languages

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Taita Cushitic is an extinct pair of South Cushitic languages, spoken by Cushitic peoples inhabiting the Taita Hills of Kenya, before they were assimilated...

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Dahalo language

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Dahalo is an endangered Cushitic language spoken by around 500–600 Dahalo people on the coast of Kenya, near the mouth of the Tana River. Dahalo is unusual...

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Waaq

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Waaqa) is the name for the sky God in several Cushitic languages, including the Oromo language and Somali language. Waaqa (Oromo pronunciation: [waːkʼa]) still...

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Sidama language

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used in the past to refer to most Highland East Cushitic languages, earlier even to some Omotic languages. The results from a research study conducted in...

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Languages of Kenya

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Nilotic populations and the Cushitic, Afroasiatic language family respectively. The Arab ethnic minority speak languages belonging to the separate Afroasiatic...

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Maa languages

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hunter-gatherers who spoke Cushitic languages, and the Mukogodo-Maasai (Yaaku), former bee-keepers and hunter-gatherers (Eastern Cushitic). The Okiek of northern...

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Mbugu language

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presents the Cushitic element as a register of a Bantu language, and identifies it as largely East Cushitic rather than South Cushitic. Normal Mbugu...

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Bussa language

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Bussa, or Mossiya, is a Cushitic language spoken in the Dirashe special woreda of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region located in...

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Eritreans

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Ethiopian people of Eritrean descent Most languages spoken in Eritrea are from the Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan language family. Tigrinya Tigre Dahalik Arabic...

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Lower Nubia

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states that Cushitic languages once dominated Lower Nubia along with the Ancient Egyptian language. Rilly (2019) states: "Two Afro-Asiatic languages were present...

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Beja people

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The Beja people (Arabic: البجا, Beja: Oobja, Tigre: በጃ) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Eastern Desert, inhabiting a coastal area from southeastern...

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Berber languages

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the Chadic, Cushitic, and Omotic languages of the Afro-Asiatic phylum, Berber languages are not tonal. "Tamazight" and "Berber languages" are often used...

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Oromo language

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Libya, Egypt and Sudan. Oromo is the most widely spoken Cushitic language and among the five languages of Africa with the largest mother-tongue populations...

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